Building Software Businesses for an AI Future
The article discusses the impact of AI on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) businesses, suggesting that while simple SaaS may decline, complex software will endure. It emphasizes the need for companies to rethink their products in light of AI advancements and the changing user interface. Founders are encouraged to focus on proprietary data, compliance, and deep integrations to ensure their software remains valuable.
- ▪SaaS valuations have significantly decreased since AI entered the market.
- ▪The author believes that while simple SaaS businesses may disappear, complex software will continue to thrive.
- ▪Companies should focus on proprietary data, regulated industries, and deep integrations to maintain their competitive edge.
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| Original publisher | Growing Ventures |
| Canonical URL | https://www.hauser.io/building-software-businesses-for-an-ai-future/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:07:59 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-04-28T16:37:43.353Z |
| Last seen | 2026-04-28T16:37:43.353Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | rybFy1VaIn6_ · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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AI Building Software Businesses for an AI Future Bernhard Hauser 25 Apr 2026 · 3 min read Read by Bernhard Hauser (not AI)0:00/324.5714581×Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has been the darling of investors and founders alike: build once, charge forever, watch margins expand as revenue scales faster than cost.But once AI has entered the market and found product-market-fit with software development, SaaS valuations have fallen off a cliff. My take is, they will not recover.Many AI enthusiasts are proclaiming the death of software as we know it, because agents will take over everything and make SaaS obsolete.Personally, I don't buy it. But I also don't think things stay the same.
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